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UNITED STATES PATENT i OEEiCE.

JEREMIAII II. KATOR, OF DETROIT, lllICI-IIGAN.

NAM E-PLATE PATTERN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 445,785, dated February 3, 1891. Application tiled June 23, ISSO. Serial No. 356,386. (No model.)

Neri-T @ZZ whom it' may concern:

Be it known that I, .IEREMIAH H. KATOR., a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county of lVayne and State of 5 Michigan, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in the Manufacture of Name-Plates, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

ro rIhis invention relates to new and useful improvements in the manufacture of nameplates, door-plates, signs, dre.; and the invention consists in the peculiar construction of a frame having means for inserting therein x any desired name, number, or inscription, so that it may be used as a pattern for casting therefrom; and the invention further consists in the peculiar construction, arrangement, and combination of the various parts,

2o whereby the plate may be cast from said pattern with means for fastening it, all as more fully hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawingsFigure l is a front perspective view of the pat-tern, the

name inserted being formed of separate letters. Fig. '2 is a rear perspective view thereof. Fig. 3 is a cross-section on line a: as in Fig. l. Fig. a is a similar section `through the plate cast from the pattern. Fig. 5 is a 3e detached perspective view of an insertible plate for the pattern,in which the name is formed by cementing the letters to a back or by constructing` it integrally, as specitically referred to hereinafter.

A is a frame, preferably of metal, and of the shape and size which it is designed to make the plate. This frame is preferably provided with beveled edges a, or is other- Wise ornamentally finished around the edges,

4o and has an opening b extending the entire length, or nearly so. Into this opening a panel is inserted, which may be formed of sep arate characters c, as shown in Figs. l and 2, or made of a back plate d, to which the desired characters are cemented on or integrally formed thereon, as in Fig. 5. This panel (or each section) is provided with raised flanges e e near the upper and lower edges, respectively, which fit against the upper and lower edges of the opening in the frame, and 5o thereby hold the panel against vertical displacement and form a bevel edge.

If the characters are not sufficient, or the single panel not long enough to lill the opening, spaces are used, and lateral displacement is prevented by inserting end spaces g, which have raised anges corresponding to the dan ges e, and which continue said flanges around the ends of the opening in the frame.

Upon the rear side of the frame near each 6o end are formed the lugs or keepers h, adapted to engage the ends of a locking-bar '1., which holds the panels detachably inposition. This locking-bar has a central boss j, from which projects a pin k, and smaller pins or 6 5 spurs Z are `provided near the ends of the locking-bar.

The device, being constructed as shown and described, is to be used as a pattern for casting therefrom door-plates or signs, rbc., and 7.o it Will be seen that it affords not only the greatest facilities for changing the characters or the inscription,so that thesame frame may be used for casting a variety of plates, but at the same time the plate to be cast may be provided with means for securing it to doors, rbc., by placing in the` print made by the pin 7c. in molding a correspondinglysized bolt 7e', so that it. Will be cast into the plate, and forms a means for securing it in So position by a nut m, the spurs serving at the same time as additional fastenings by bein-g ldriven into the Wood.

What I claim as my invention is l. In a pattern for signs or plates, the com- 8 5 binatio1i,with the frame, of detachable figuredpanels arranged within the frame, and a locking-bar for the panels, formed with a central boss and suitable pins, substantially as de scribed.

2. In a pattern for signs or plates, the combination, with a rectangular frame having beveled edges, of a series of figured panels formed with raised anges adjacentfto their edges, a locking-bar extending across the frame in thel rear of the panels, and lugs on the frame for securing the bar in place, substantially as described.

A pattern for signs or door-plates, &C., In testimony whereof Iafx my signature in consisting of Itho frame-plate A, the lugs 7L, presence of two witnesses. the detachable panel provided with raised flanges e, Jche end spaces g, the looking-bm' fi, J EREMIAH H. KATOR. 5 provided with the central boss j, and the pin Titnessesz .5 and spurs Zon said locking-bm', substan- JAMES XVHITTEMQRE,

tially as described. P. M. HULBERT.

Correction ih Letters Patent No. y445,785., y

No. 445,785, granteahebmery 3,1891,

for an improvement 1t is hereby certified that Letters Patent uponvthe application ofvJeremiah H. Katoi, of Detroit, Michigan, in Name-Plate Patterns;7 were erroneously issued to that said Letters Patent shouid have entire interest in the invention; said Katar met Adolph W. one-haii' interest as Shown byassgnme Letters Patent shonld he' read with this correction therein that the Same may conform to the vrecord of the oase in the Patent fce.

Signed, eonntersigned, andseaied this 17th day of March, A. D. 1891.

[SEAL] GYRUS BUSSEY,

Gountersigned:

C. E. MITCHELL,

Commissioner of Patents.

said inventores owner of the said Buekbinder being owner of" ts 4of record in this office; and that the said f Assi-stmt Seoretay of the Interior.

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